Okay, so the movie threads are tonnes of fun, how about one for the Hollywood acting elite!  My quick list is as follows:

- Jim Carrey / Adam Sandler, I consider these two virtually interchangeable and avoid anything they do (even their serious "art film" attempts).  There's just something about their smugness (and mugging the camera) that simply doesn't do it for me.

- Michael Caine, even though he has done some decent work I always look at the screen and think "hey, there's Michael Caine".  This inevitably takes away from my viewing experience.

- Jessica Biel, seems to be a favorite right now and yes, she's good looking, however, she almost single handedly destroyed "The Illusionist"!

This one is too easy. Julia Roberts and Ashley Judd

- Jim Carrey / Adam Sandler, I consider these two virtually interchangeable and avoid anything they do (even their serious "art film" attempts).  There's just something about their smugness (and mugging the camera) that simply doesn't do it for me.

Jim Carrey managed to completely ruin The Majestic for me with one single instance of his mugging for the camera. Granted the film isn't spectactular, but it was partially filmed in one of my fave places, so I enjoyed it immensely. Until right at the end, when Jim Carrey's character is giving his big speech to the committee, and it's a great speech and it's all emotional and I'm going "wow, OK. Carrey's sort of impressing me here"...and then he does that smug trademark Jim Carrey face as he's saying the last line of the speech. And I almost f*cking died. It ruined the WHOLE thing. C*cksucker!

Ashton Kutcher. I do NOT get the obsession with him. He could be a total prince of a man and have an IQ of 160 and I would still hate him to the ends of the earth.

Natalie Portman. I know, throw your rotten fruit at me. She was great in The Professional but it's all sort of gone downhill from there. She doesn't do much to convince me that she's anything more than a one-trick pony. I think the closest she's gotten to showing she CAN act is Garden State but I can't really be sure since it was hard to see through the thick blanket of smug that surrounded Zach Braff the entire time.

There are more, but I have a research paper to finish up by midnight. Ugh.

Nicole Kidman.  She just doesn't do it for me as an actress.  I don't rate her.

James Dean.  I'm not saying he wasn't pretty to look at, but I don't think he was that good an actor.  I know maybe  he didn't have enough time to prove himself, or grow as an actor blah blah blah, but based on the evidence I have seen I don't think he would have got better.

Hugh Grant.  I loved Four Weddings and a Funeral, but practically every film he's been in since that role has seen him playing the same character.  He's too old to be a shy bumbling Englishman now, for God's sake.

On the back of that, Renee Zellwegger.  Bridget Jones?!?!  I don't think so.  She tries so hard to be cutesy and just ends up pulling the most horrendous simpering faces.  Gah. 

Tom Cruise, I can honestly say that only 3 movies of his I enjoyed: Magnolia, Vanilla Sky, Born on the 4th of July.  I remember all my friends in high school getting all nasty over him and I was like "he's not Marlon Brando so I don't care..."

I HATE Gwenyth Paltrow.  I don't know why, I just do.

I agree with the Aston Kutcher dislike...he kind of sucks.

Okay, so the movie threads are tonnes of fun, how about one for the Hollywood acting elite!  My quick list is as follows:

- Jim Carrey / Adam Sandler, I consider these two virtually interchangeable and avoid anything they do (even their serious "art film" attempts).  There's just something about their smugness (and mugging the camera) that simply doesn't do it for me.

- Michael Caine, even though he has done some decent work I always look at the screen and think "hey, there's Michael Caine".  This inevitably takes away from my viewing experience.

- Jessica Biel, seems to be a favorite right now and yes, she's good looking, however, she almost single handedly destroyed "The Illusionist"!

  Why just Hollywood thespians? Can't indie or "foreign" performers be annoying, unconvicing ("incredible", literally) or just plain unpleasant to watch?   
 

   Why just Hollywood thespians? Can't indie or "foreign" performers be annoying, unconvicing ("incredible", literally) or just plain unpleasant to watch?   
 

 You are absolutely correct.  So off the top of my head let me add Gerard Depardieu in the foreign acting category and Naomi Watts for the indie category (she just felt out of place and out acted in MD and Eastern Promises).

I'm always on those gossip websites that mercilessly slam whoever's hot right now.

Always hated Brad Pitt (kind of fugly, imo) and Angelina, both.  I hate anyone I see too much of.
   

Why just Hollywood thespians? Can't indie or "foreign" performers be annoying, unconvicing ("incredible", literally) or just plain unpleasant to watch?

You are absolutely correct. So off the top of my head let me add Gerard Depardieu in the foreign acting category and Naomi Watts for the indie category (she just felt out of place and out acted in MD and Eastern Promises).

Naomi Watts out  acted in Mulholland Drive?! I don't see how anyone could come to that conclusion, she was the performance of Mulholland Dr. She had to do all the heavy lifting, the rest of the cast were just great character actors that were perfectly cast (with the exception of Justin Theroux). Also she really doesn't count as an indie actress anymore.

To contribute to the thread, I definitely agree that Natalie Portman is way overrated. She's kind of likeable somehow, but not a particularly impressive actress. I wouldn't say that everyone loves Tom Cruise anymore though... also I never really cared too much for any of the Wilson brothers, they're mildly amusing but I don't see why directors love them so much. I would say Jim Carrey but I really admire his performances in "The Truman Show" and "Eternal Sunshine".

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Julia Roberts

Tom Cruise

Tony Danza

Sylvester Stallone

Richared Gere

Warren Beatty

woah, so, the staring man ya did not like the film bonnie and clyde, also splendor in the grass starring warren beatty??? that's the only couple films I liked warren there. I cannot stand jennifer aniston, gwenthyth paltrow, I am so agreeing with 12 rainbow on brad & angelina, they suck. I love michael caine in some of his work in films!

melanie griffith, her mom was great in hitchcock's film "the birds" but as for melanie, she sucks!

oh! I see naomi watts is in filming the production of the birds. newer version? like what's his name from the newer film psycho, vince vaughan? my sis's liked him in some dwight yoakam music video.

1. Thank you, Flange for reminding of my intense dislike for Renee Z.

2. I was fine with Naomi in 21 Grams and in pretty much everything else I have seen her. Haven't see Eastern Promises yet.

3. I don't have a problem with Brad Pitt and he has proven he's a good actor (to me at least).

4. Agree with the Jim Carrey stuff including the pro Truman and Sunshine statement.

And Jennifer Lopez, amen!! Never liked her even if I have one of her films which I only bought because it was directed by Lasse Hallstrom and had some finer actors in it.

Richard Gere. Same story. Never saw what the attraction was or any great talent. Melanie Griffith and Kim Basinger fall under this heading as well. 
      

Thank you, Flange for reminding of my intense dislike for Renee Z.

No problem there...I like to spread the message to as many people as possible where she is concerned...

Soooo many wonderful selections!  Hard to disagree with many but like Rebel, I'd quibble with the inclusion of my boy Warren Beatty.  Don't hate him just because he once the most beautiful man in Hollywood, Rob! Bonnie and Clyde, Shampoo, Reds, Ishtar (!).  But seriously... he really doesn't act much any more so he may agree with you.  But oh man, back in the day, he made Brad Pitt look shabby. 

This one's for you, Rebel! 

Remember that around this time, Richard Beymer and Warren Beatty were competing for the same roles, which is an interesting side angle.

And Paris Hilton... 

Paris Hilton. She's done absolutely NOTHING to deserve her fame, unless you count being filthy stinking rich and slutty as positive traits, and she's not even that attractive.

Well, she isn't an actress, is she?  Although she's widely photographed and always on magazine covers, I'm not sure it's because everybody loves her. Not her fault she was born into a family fortune but it is several generation removed from Conrad's original fortune.  Many children of the rich do not figure out how to make a living.  Whaddever else you say, Paris makes a tidy sum on her own.  On certain angles, you can see the face that she will become in a decade or so when she blends in with the other ladies who lunch in Beverly Hills.  But she's got a good body going on.  Pretty skin. And the girl knows how to dress!  She rarely picks a bad outfit.  Wouldn't you agree, Flangie, my fashion critiquing partner?  I'm not saying I loves the Paris; but I can't work up a frenzy of rancor against her either.  She doesn't seem that offensive to me.

Notice I didn't comment on the slutty part? 

Susan 

Is this an actual response, or a joke based on that show, or both?

Well, I really don't like Ray Romano, and I really don't like his show, and I really do like to have any excuse to post that picture. 

Milo Ventimiglia on Heroes is starting to get on my nerves. I think he can be a good actor, but his role isn't the most interesting and/or fascinating only because he was cast as the lead actor of the series!

Okay, maybe I chose an example that is not very suitable, because the poor (well, maybe not that poor...) guy is still very young and still has no really important titles under his name that will convince me he wants to be a star and knock everyone else down... so I'm giving him some other chances for redemption.

About Natalie Portman I absolutely disagree! I mean, I know everyone hates her, but maybe it's just shame to admit she's a little living miracle because she's been around since she was a a little girl and she did some incredibile perfomances for someone unexperienced like her. Check Milos Forman's Goya's Ghosts and of course Mike Nichols' Closer, which I'm ready to bet that everyone else here is ready to smash, but she was the star of the movie and really meant it. It was a pleasure for the eye and the soul and I'm glad the movie revolves basically all around her, because she made it right.

However, here's the one I hate the most:  Keanu Reeves. I mean, he's just unbearable to watch on the screen. He started pissing me off even with his earlier works, like Coppola's Dracula.

Did I mention Matt Damon?  I really hate Matt Damon and will only watch a movie he is in if I want to see it because of someone else.  Like Franka Potente is in the Bourne movies so I may see it...I really can't stand him...URGH!  It's almost like turning on the radio and Coldplay being on...I have an involuntary reaction to punch someone when I hear Coldplay and that's kind of what Matt Damon is to me...

Did I mention Matt Damon?

Countdown to Susan and her Matt Damon picture.

Did I mention Matt Damon?

Countdown to Susan and her Matt Damon picture.

Gawd, I love this photo!

 

WOW! Warren was such a sharp lookin man! what a babe! thank you for posting a pic of him Susan!

Someone here smells cheese???

(Sorry I had to say some lynchian line to give some cadence)